The ethics of animal research : exploring the controversy / edited by Jeremy R. Garrett.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2012]

xii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

The ethics of animal research : an overview of the debate / Jeremy R. Garrett -- Ethics and animal research / Bernard E. Rollin -- The evolutionary basis for animal research / Stephen P. Schiffer -- Defending animal research : an international perspective / Baruch A. Brody -- Animal experimentation, marginal cases, and the significance of suffering / Alastair Norcross -- Lives in the balance : utilitarianism and animal research / Robert Bass -- Empty cages : animal rights and vivisection / Tom Regan -- Virtue, vice, and vivisection / Garret Merriam -- Contractarianism, animals, and risk / Mark Rowlands -- Ethical issues concerning transgenic animals in biomedical research / David B. Resnik -- Casuistry and the moral continuum : evaluating animal biotechnology / Autumn Fiester -- Debating the value of animal research / Andrew Rowan -- The commonsense case against animal experimentation / Mylan Engel Jr. -- Rational engagement, emotional response, and the prospects for moral progress in animal use "debates" / Nathan Nobis -- Animal rights advocacy and modern medicine : the charge of hypocrisy / Tom Regan -- We're all animals : a feminist treatment of the moral limits of nonhuman animal research / Christina M. Bellon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.